Barm or Muffin?

[AnnO'Neemus]

Barmcake is very soft, bigger, and more brown/golden coloured, with a convex top.

Muffin is more solid/stodgy in consistency, floury, with a flat top, you get this with eggs benedict, or egg McMuffin. Different thing.

Stottie, bigger and flatter than a barmcake.

Chip butty = made with bread innit?

Edited to add: Yeah, teacake has currants in it: teacake + chips = weird combination.

 

[Spion]

Edited to add: Yeah, teacake has currants in it: teacake + chips = weird combination.

Teacakes in Bradford are the same as baps, rolls etc.

 

[killer b]

it used to be a teacake when i was a child (20 years ago), but is now firmly a barm cake.

preston btw. janeb is WRONG when she claims it's a bap...

 

[butterfly child]

Ham and pease pudding in anything is wrong.

 

[janeb]

it used to be a teacake when i was a child (20 years ago), but is now firmly a barm cake.

preston btw. janeb is WRONG when she claims it's a bap...

Hey, it's what we called them so you're wrong

(although technically I'm from Blackpool, but can 15 miles make such a difference and I did live in Preston for 8 years)

 

[avu9lives]

I calls em 'oven bottoms' - real fresh bakery made in the back of the shop.

can't be doing with them fluffy baps and barms, yuk! supermarket tosh!

Now a chip muffin I dont mind the odd one, and I am partial to the odd currant tea-cake dribbling with melted butter

 

[Fez909]

In Middlesbrough we call them buns, or baps if you're posh.

 

[citygirl]

T-cakes...and they're BUTTIES!!

not flipping barms!!..bloody barmy indeed them lancys

 

[inspoken]

Where im from (Manchester) its a chip muffin if its on what the suvveners call a "bread roll". If its on bread, its a chip butty.

The gf still thinks im taking the piss when i ask her to get me a muffin (she thinks muffins are cakes) - but then again she is from surrey...not her fault tho

 

[Mallard]

It's a cob for me. A butty is always a sandwich. Surely.

 

[citygirl]

don't call us shirley

 

[Mallard]

don't call us shirley

Very good!

 

[citygirl]

thanks...i try

 

[avu9lives]

chip muffin on bread, tee cake, baps, barms, cobs, rolls, cakes, loaves, soda bread, sticks, does it matter you still sick em in yer mouths and eat!
Dialect is so ehr! such a conversation point aint it?
And a sin! christians would never judge a person in such a way, by the bread that we eat.
Eat wafers instead, cant tolerate glutenous stuff!

 

[lemontop]

In Middlesbrough we call them buns, or baps if you're posh.

Not a stottie or a fadgie?

 

[PJW20]

I'm from North Wales so it has to be BAP. I've also spent time in Glasgow and enjoyed the 'morning rolls' there.

 

[BIG davie H]

You may well have a point there

oak cakes from the hole in the wall in hanley are just to die for on a sunday morning

 

[Mungy]

i was brought up in birkenhead and we had 2 types of bread roll thingies. a soft one known as a "batch" and a crusty one called a "cob". me mam worked in a butty shop on the corner of our road, so she'd know.

 

[JE:5]

I once confused the fuck out of someone from London that was visiting when I asked for a chip cob in a chippy once.

 

[Mallard]

I thought it'd be a 'roll' in posh gentrified Chorlton

 

[Mallard]

I once confused the fuck out of someone from London that was visiting when I asked for a chip cob in a chippy once.

That's what they are called surely?

 

[mr steev]

As a Midlander, it's a cob or a batch.
A butty is a sandwich

 

[Mallard]

As a Midlander, it's a cob or a batch.
A butty is a sandwich

Batch is a new one to me. I like variety in the naming of bread products myself

 

[Fez909]

Not a stottie or a fadgie?

Stottie is a Geordie word and fadgies tend to be triangular, not round like buns/baps. IMO, of course.

 

[tarannau]

Batch is a new one to me. I like variety in the naming of bread products myself

It's a bit like Eskimos and the fact they've got something like 12 words to describe snow isn't it - Northerners have at least 17 words to denote a 'bread roll' and more than 24 to describe a 'pie'

Serve anything outside those two major food groups and you'll get some strange and bemused looks though. I once spent 3 days trying to get Geordies to say the word 'plantain' properly...

 

[Throbbing Angel]

fucking
MUFFIN

e.o.

 

[Mallard]

It's a bit like Eskimos and the fact they've got something like 12 words to describe snow isn't it - Northerners have at least 17 words to denote a 'bread roll' and more than 24 to describe a 'pie'

Serve anything outside those two major food groups and you'll get some strange and bemused looks though. I once spent 3 days trying to get Geordies to say the word 'plantain' properly...

Indeed. What is a 'plantain'?

 

[sam/phallocrat]

If I'm in London it's a roll/bap.

Sheffield is a breadcake.

If I want one with chips in, in either location, then it's a butty.

 

[avu9lives]

chip 'n' sin in a bread! roll,

 

[debsinleeds]

a bap in leeds
my ex who came from middlesbrough called it a bun